WARNER ROBINS, Ga.- Thirteen-year-old Chelsea Edwards says last weekend was the first time she ever tried her hand at a money-making venture.
The seventh-grader at Feagin Mill Middle School says it wasn't too long though before a couple showed up and soured her first business experience.
"The man bent down and seen the money jar, and he grabbed it," Edwards says, recalling what happened Saturday.
Edwards says a man and woman had approached the stand she was running with her two friends. She says they started asking questions about the price of lemonade.
That's when Edwards says the man reached down and snatched the jar of money she held between her legs.
"He flew in the car, and the girl was running after the car," Edwards says.
Houston County investigators say the couple is 20-year-old Gage Allen Turner and 21-year-old Amber Umbarger, both of Warner Robins.
Lt. John Holland says Turner got away in a white car that could be a 2010 Hyundai Accent.
He says Umbarger was left behind, and deputies quickly arrested her on the scene.
Holland says Warner Robins police arrested Turner around 3 a.m. Tuesday.
Edwards says the pair made off with $130.
Wait a second. The jar had $130 in it? How the fuck did that happen? The story says that they barely started selling lemonade, and they already had $130. Jesus, this kid is a financial genius. She might as well quit school and work full time at the lemonade stand if she can make that kind of scratch in a few hours.
The kids that live next door to me are always out on the sidewalk trying to sell lemonade and shit like that. I can't imagine they're pulling in that type of money, though. I don't think they've ever even had a customer. I've thought about going over a few times, but they're like 6 years old, and its probably not the most sanitary operation over there.
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